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The takeaway from this is that safe deposit boxes are no longer "safe" from criminal elements.
The takeaway from this is that safe deposit boxes are no longer "safe" from criminal elements. This line of bank business should dry up almost overnight.. but we have witnessed the level of critical thinking displayed by people, so there's a good chance that won't actually happen.
Tempted to store dildos in safe deposit boxes with giant FBI label on it.
so you have to open every box
US papers avoid reporting on US corruption
Patrick saysI'm sure the FBI will violate the Constitution again and again, but they won't say when, so it would be expensive to have the box just for this.
Looks like they had a warrant. So the FBI didn't violate the Constitution. The judge who granted that warrant should be impeached and removed, tho.
Do people actually use safe deposit boxes still? My local bank is appointment only still to get inside because of Covid. I don't know, always seems backwards to store anything of value in a place that is a massive target for robbery. It's also super inconvenient. There are relatively cheap alternative.
He didn't trust his spouse. I doubt she had access to it.
He passed away a couple of years ago. I dunno whatever became of that safe and its contents.
weren't they raided by Rosevelt back in 1933 when posession of gold was bannedWell if they did, they overlooked my father's 1898 $5 gold coin from the year of his birth that he saved and that I have to this day in a safety deposit box.
Well if they did, they overlooked my father's 1898 $5 gold coin from the year of his birth that he saved and that I have to this day in a safety deposit box.
I use it for documents that would be a hassle to replace. Only time I needed to access it was to retrieve passport which is only occasional like once every 5 or so years, and car titles which is even less frequent.
What documents are a hassle though?
hassle to replace.
Yes, I know. It's SF Bay-Area Centric Patrick.net. SF Bay Area, we must be Snarkey.
A "free" safe deposit box that's at a nearby bank branch is a convenient place to keep that sort of stuff compared to installing a safe for that purpose. But that's just me. I'm not in the 3% or 1% or whatever.
I'm sure you'll point out why yours is better.
And then they demand that each box owner expose all their personal information to Google via embedded Recaptcha javascript to try to get their own property back: